EXPERT QUINCE CULTURE. 



Fig. 1504. — The Fcller Quince. 



THE bulk of the crop of quinces that 

 have been sent to market this win- 

 ter shows that there is something 

 radically wrong with the system of 

 culture pursued by the majority of fruit 

 growers. The occasional receipt of some 

 fine quinces that are free from blemishes 

 is the only thing to keep consumers from 



despairing of ever getting perfect fruits. 

 But the quince responds to culture as 

 well as any fruit, and they may be grown 

 to perfection if the right rules are pro- 

 perly observed. To begin with, then, it 

 is necessary to dispel a few notions that 

 some growers have acquired through er- 

 roneous conception of an old trite say- 



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